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The Hidden Review: Atlas - Film Review
"Atlas, this won't work if you don't trust me"
"I'm not letting you in my head"
The THR has watched the preview of the upcoming Netflix thriller Sci-fi "Atlas" starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla, and Mark Strong, written by Leo Sardarian, Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Brad Peyton.
The story speaks about the use of AI, which, in present days, has become more "efficient" than ever. Therefore, AI is something that humanity is still dealing with and discovering daily its potential.
As the story uses this theme as the main focus, the story's influences are more likely about the trust we have in technologies and between human beings.
As quoted in the movie, "Human beings are difficult to trust" However, on the other hand, AI from the perspective of Atlas (Lopez's character) and for the storyline, AI is even more difficult to trust than human beings due to her past experiences that have influenced all her pain and character's journey.
Atlas, played by Jennifer Lopez, whose high-quality performance looks steady throughout the whole movie, is not alone among other stars such as Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Abraham Popola, Lana Parrilla, and Mark Strong. Their performances helped their character's journeys throughout their different paths.
However, as the movie focuses more on a solo lead female journey, her character encounters various challenges and sub-storylines. For example, the main goal appears to be to defeat Arlan played beautifully by Simu Liu. But, her real goal is about trusting humanity and AI, which seems impossible until the movie ends when her character reaches the highest point of climax and, therefore, needs to make a death-life decision to survive.
The movie concept reminds us of the 20-year-old movie "I Robot" (2004) starring Will Smith, and as a comp in style, touches base on a different journey but similar in terms of the trust between humans and technologies. Despite this, they were both made in and for diverse generations, and respectfully live in various points of time, where technology influences our daily life as it shows a similar but different evolution.
Despite this, we can see a different tone with the help of CGI, which helps visually and shows how technology has become such a huge factor in increasing the visual value of the movie and making it so believable.
Overall, the story makes some valuable points about the concept of trust among humans and of the use of technology, which recognizes the pros and cons, and besides, that all is about a common point of connection and, therefore, of synchronization of faith.
Hidden Fire Stars 7/10 ⭐️
Congratulations cast and crew!
Review written by Al Fenderico.
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